My beats, FWN 133 on
by Max Spevack
Beats I plan to write weekly:
Announcements
Planet
Beats we need to find a new home for:
Marketing
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I decided I'd rather write the Planet beat, since there are a bunch of
folks in the Marketing group currently, and it would be nice to get one
of them to step up.
Is that ok with everyone?
--Max
15 years, 9 months
FWN 132 on f-announce-l
by Max Spevack
I approved the FWN 132 message on Fedora announce list.
I also added in an announcements beat, which I had missed on Sunday.
So that is now out the door. Moving forward, there are two things we
have to make sure happen:
1) Someone approves the FWN announcements on f-announce-l (this can be
me, as I do have admin on that list) or one of several others.
2) One of our two editors posts on their blog, so that the announcement
also ends up on Planet.
Thanks to everyone for picking me up, stepping up, and helping to keep
FWN going. I really appreciate it.
--Max
15 years, 10 months
i'm not dead yet
by Max Spevack
My head is down, and I'm working on a bunch of post-FUDCon, budget, 6-12
month planning stuff with Greg and our boss this week... FWN is still
very much on my mind though, and it is not forgotten.
I have had a couple of emails from beat writers looking to step up, and
maybe start to assume some of the "editor" duties of FWN. I would be
*thrilled* to see that transition "just happen", and have someone swoop
in here and help get a FWN out the door, and then figure out a schedule
to re-base us on that allows their particular vision to be implemented.
I could then see my role as one of helping to move things forward on the
wordpress multi-user front, and the infrastructure improvements that
will make FWN more sustainable long-term.
But if someone is ready to jump in and take some leadership, consider
this your "blessing" from me! :)
I can't say enough how much I appreciate the hard work of this entire
team. It's been a challenging couple of weeks for FWN, but I think
we're moving along well.
Critical path:
1) new editor in chief, someone to handle the content
2) go through our beat writer roster and figure out if some of the
people who have been MIA are coming back, or if we really need to step
up our recruitment
3) infrastructure changes for a more scalable content process in the
future.
that's all i have for the moment...
--Max
15 years, 10 months
[Fwd: Fedora Weekly News Issue 132]
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
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I cannnot post to fedora-announce-list
I am asking for permissions on #fedora-admin
So i will do it as soon as i get the required access.
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Subject: Fedora Weekly News Issue 132
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:35:01 -0400
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To: huzaifas(a)redhat.com
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15 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News Issue 132
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
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The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 132.
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 for the week ending June 8, 2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue132
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a
chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news,
and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.
We are looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora Planet
each week, Fedora Security Advisories, and to summarize the Fedora
Events and Meetings that happened during each week.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join.
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View the complete issue of Fedora Weekly News on our wiki:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue132
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15 years, 10 months
Mirror bandwidth and user redirection
by Matt Domsch
(for consideration for FWN, thanks.)
Tonight I deployed a slight update to MirrorManager that I'd been
wanting to do for a while. The basic selection algorithm for choosing
the order in which to return mirrors to clients remains the same:
prefer same netblocks, internet2 in same country if on internet2, same
country, same continent, then global, in that order. However, until
now, faster mirrors (those with larger bandwidths) were returned with
equal probability as slower mirrors. This means not enough traffic
was being sent to our gigabit-connected mirrors, and too much traffic
was being sent to our slower mirrors.
Each mirror's bandwidth value is now used as a weight. Mirrors with
larger bandwidth will have a a higher probability of being returned
earlier in the mirrorlist selection. Slower mirrors can still be
returned as the first mirrorlist selection because this is based on
probabilities, but should not be overwhelmed anymore.
For countries with fewer mirrors, such as India, where there's some
relatively fast mirrors, and several relatively slower mirrors, this
should mean that users will more often get directed to the faster
mirrors.
Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
15 years, 10 months
FWN: Marketing beat complete
by Pascal Calarco
Just a quick note that the Marketing beat has been updated from last
week and is complete.
Everyone, if you plan to have your beat in for this week, please echo to
the list so we have an idea if we have enough content for an issue this
week.
It seems there is significant momentum building to evolve FWN from the
wiki to Wordpress and/or Fedora TV. We may want to start some
discussion around this after we get the next issue out.
Certainly we could reference and create RSS feeds for audio and video
items posted to Fedora TV from within a Wordpress FWN. What needs to
happen still to move over to Wordpress Multiuser, and is help needed to
get this accomplished? Thanks all!
- pascal
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PascalCalarco
15 years, 10 months
this week's issue
by Max Spevack
Due to FUDCon and airline delays/cancellations, I am running waaay
behind on this week's issue of FWN.
It will probably be released on Tuesday. If you're working on beats, I
appreciate it. If you haven't finished your beat, extra time.
My apologies -- I'm stranded in Newark and considering just purchasing a
home here, since I think it's where I'll be for the rest of my life.
--Max
15 years, 10 months
FWN this week?
by Pascal Calarco
Is there going to be a Fedora Weekly News this week? If so, may we
update the beats page for June 22nd?
- pascal
15 years, 10 months
